A/HRC/RES/25/37 (f) The ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto; (g) Progress towards the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (h) Improvements in the treatment of detainees in detention centres under State control, and the opening of the newly built al-Jawwiyah Institution for Correction and Rehabilitation in Misrata; (i) The intention to draft a national plan of action on enhancing the protection of human rights in partnership with the Office of the High Commissioner with a view to building a State governed by the rule of law, and encourages its implementation; 5. Calls upon the Government of Libya to establish a broad-based and inclusive national dialogue in order to ensure a peaceful and sustainable democratic transition; 6. Condemns the assassination of government officials and civil society leaders, including judges and other members of the judiciary in Derna and Benghazi, and urges the Government of Libya to continue its investigations in order to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice and to ensure a strengthened justice system, recognizing the need to provide substantial technical support for the investigations; 7. Expresses concern at the continued mistreatment of detainees in detention centres out of judicial police control; 8. Calls upon the Government of Libya to urgently increase efforts to establish full and effective control over all detention centres in order to ensure that detainees, including foreign detainees, are treated in accordance with its international obligations, including those relating to due process of law and basic legal protections, humane conditions of detention and fair trials, and that all detainees who will not be charged are released immediately; 9. Urges the Government of Libya to intensify efforts to prevent acts of torture, to investigate all allegations of torture and other ill-treatment in detention facilities, and to bring to justice those responsible; 10. Notes the continued cooperation of the Government of Libya with the International Criminal Court regarding the situation in Libya; 11. Urges the Government of Libya to expedite the voluntary return in safety and dignity of all persons displaced, in accordance with the law on transitional justice, and to strengthen efforts to end the continued arbitrary detention, torture and harassment of individuals; 12. Also urges the Government of Libya to take further steps to protect freedom of expression, ensuring that media can operate freely and without discrimination, to review provisions of the Penal Code and other provisions that violate freedom of expression and to abolish all Penal Code restrictions on free speech that stipulate imprisonment and the death penalty for “insults” to officials, judiciary and the State, for “slander” and for blasphemy; 13. Calls upon the Government of Libya to further empower women and girls, ensuring full participation in relation to the electoral system, the police and the judiciary; 14. Encourages the Libyan Constitutional Assembly to include in the Constitution protections for the rights of all, including members of vulnerable groups and women; 3

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